The first cell phone call was made on April 3, 1973, by Motorola engineer Martin Cooper. At the time, Cooper was working on a project to develop the first portable cell phone, ...

Photo: Redrum0486 vía Wikimedia Commons, (CC BY-SA 3.0) That’s right, the first cell phone call also included a bit of trolling, but it was still an historic moment. Cooper said the biggest ...

In 1973, Martin Cooper and his team at Motorola built, demonstrated first cell phone; Cooper says that first phone cost $3,900, plus 50 cents a minute to talk ...

On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper stood on a sidewalk on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan with a device the size of a brick and made the first public call from a cell phone to one of the men he’d been ...

On designing the first cell phone “I was fortunate to have a group of extraordinary designers. And these guys in 1973, even before even the idea was known to hardly anybody, came up with designs for ...

Samsung has been making cell phones for over 30 years. The company's first phone was the SH-100 in 1988, released exclusively in Korea.

The Motorola Rokr was released in 2005, and was the first cell phone that supported iTunes. However, the phone's handset was slow, only stored 100 songs at a time, and needed a wire to download songs.

On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper stood on a sidewalk on sixth avenue in Manhattan with a device the size of a brick and made the first public call from a cell phone to one of the men he'd been ...

50 years ago, the first cell phone call was made Motorola engineer Martin Cooper made the first cellphone call 50 years ago this week. Who did he call? His competitor at Bell Laboratories to gloat.